Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Help Me!" As I dashed up the slope of the beach, I got my first look at Wolmi Island's defenders. Three or four half-naked North Korean soldiers, hands held rigid over their pinched, scared faces, stumbled into one of their old shallow trenches at the command of a marine. I talked to them in Japanese. "Are you going to kill us?" stammered one. When I said we wouldn't, he chattered to the others and a little of the fear went out of their eyes...
Going farther along the road toward the causeway I found a desperately wounded North Korean. "Salyo chu sio [Help me!]," he croaked, waving his hands at his conquerors. Almost all his clothing had been blown off except for a pair of new Russian boots. I watched him grow weaker while he gestured. A minute later he fell back into the dust-dead...
After Peleliu, Smith was transferred to the staff of Lieut. General Simon Buckner's Tenth Army at Pearl Harbor, to help plan D-day on Okinawa, a combined Army-Marine operation (1,213 ships, 183,000 men). In July 1945 he was assigned once more to Quantico. Appointed as Quantico commandant in 1946 was General Clifton B. Gates, a regimental commander' on Guadalcanal who is now commandant of the Corps. Gates and Smith sifted out all that had been learned of the art of amphibious warfare and distilled it into a series of textbooks, leaning heavily on Smith...
Western Europe has not the shadow of a ghost of a chance to defend itself without U.S. help. And the U.S. has no reason to consider as an asset a Europe which stays at or near its present defenseless state. These two facts, considered coolly, mean that the U.S. has only two practical courses: 1) demand a maximum effort toward rearmament by European nations, or 2) pull out of Europe militarily and economically rather than waste men and materials on a hopeless proposition...
...integrated Western European defense force (including U.S. units) under a supreme commander (tacitly understood to be an American). 2) Employment of all the available manpower which can be mustered, including troops from Western Germany. 3) Special U.S. help to any nation which makes a maximum effort with its own resources...